Monday, October 31, 2011

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--Tunisia makes history, Turkey gets leveled, and #OccupyOakland gets violent.

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--Tunisia makes history, Turkey gets leveled, and #OccupyOakland gets violent.

Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week:

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Chancellor Angela Merkel takes your questions on new German government YouTube channel

From the Philippines to Israel, Mexico to Iraq, governments from around the world have created YouTube channels and are using the site to communicate with their constituents. Today, the German government launched their YouTube channel to provide regular updates to German citizenry.

Better still, they want to hear from you. Chancellor Angela Merkel will be taking questions from citizens through YouTube. You can vote on the questions you'd like to see asked and she'll answer the top ten questions in a three-part video series on the new channel.



What questions do you have for the Chancellor? Upload them now.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Nonprofits use video to drive action on World Food Day

Cross-posted on the YouTube Blog.

Today is World Food Day and we wanted to highlight some of the ways we’re seeing nonprofit organizations around the world are sharing stories of the over one billion people who are living in hunger.

Organizations like the ONE Campaign are employing famous faces like Bono, George Clooney and Jessica Alba to help raise awareness about the issue:



Others like LinkTV are using this important day to highlight the drought and famine in the Horn of Africa, which has affected over 11.5 million people thus far:



A collection of videos related to World Food Day are featured on the YouTube homepage today. Watch them to learn more about the global hunger crisis and to see how you can help.

Friday, October 14, 2011

Live Conversation with Jeffrey Immelt (CEO of GE) on jobs and the economy

With unemployment at 9.1%, Jeffery Immelt, Chariman and CEO of GE and Chairman of the President’s outside panel of economic advisors, faces a daunting task: to figure out how to get American firms hiring again. In a recently published October report, Immelt and staff laid out recommendations for President Obama and Congress, including the formation of a new government “financing institution” to invest in alternative energy and manufacturing projects, among others. Dubbed “The Jobs Czar”, Immelt stands front and center of issue number one in the mind of the American voter: jobs, jobs, jobs.

Beginning 8:30 (EST) on Monday October 17, Thomson Reuters will explore the jobs agenda in a conversation with Jeffrey Immelt. The event will be held in New York City at the Thomson Reuters Newsmaker event, moderated by Thomson Reuters Digital Editor, Chrystia Freeland.

To watch the conversation, please visit the Reueters YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/reuters. The event will air live at 8:30 EST on Monday October 17th.

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--tensions in Egypt, New Zealand's oil disaster, and global Blackberry outages

Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week:

Friday, October 7, 2011

"What's your story?" video challenge

The White House recently launched a creative initiative asking Asian American Pacific Islanders (AAPI) to record their personal stories via short YouTube videos:



A select number of videos will be posted to the White House website and exceptional AAPI leaders will be invited to the White House for a special gathering. To learn more, or submit your own video (deadline November 1st), visit WhiteHouse.gov/WhatsYourStory.


Tuesday, October 4, 2011

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube

This Week's Top News Stories on YouTube--Michael Jackson's doctor goes on trial, Typhoon Nesat rips through the Philippines and China, and the passing of the first African woman Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Everyday on the CitizenTube Channel (and @CitizenTube on Twitter), along with our curation partners @storyful, we look at how the top news stories are covered on YouTube. Every week we'll post a weekly recap of the top news stories of the week: